CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

A graduate of the Korean Studies Program at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies, Nicolas has worked in the tech/startup space in both Seoul and Toronto, as well as heritage preservation with Heritage Toronto.

SECRETARY, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dr. Sean (Song Yeol) Han is an assistant professor in Asian History at the University of Alabama. Han teaches the history of Korea as one of many diverse and pluralistic East Asian cultures.

TREASURER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sixiang Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He teaches courses in Korea’s premodern history as well as the history of cultural and intellectual interactions in early modern East Asia.

PROGRAM ADVISOR

HeeJin Lee is a scholar of Korean literature and culture whose research focuses on establishing new connections between modern Korean literature and other literatures from across the world. She is Pony Chung Fellow and Research Professor at Korea University in Seoul, Korea.

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Jeanhyoung SOH is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University. An intellectual historian, her research interests include the Jesuit translations of Coimbra texts in China, the translation of Western political texts in Asia, and the reception of Western geographical knowledge by Korean intellectuals and their reconstructed worldview.

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Luis Botella is assistant professor at the University of Malaga. He teaches mostly on different areas of Korean and East Asian modern history. His research interest has been always focused on the historiography and intellectual history of pre-modern history.

PROGRAM ADVISOR

Songhee Lee is a researcher at the University of Ulsan and lecturer in Korean Sinographic literature at Korea University Her research explores Neo-Confucian discourse, moral agency, and ideological transformation in late Chosŏn Korea, with a focus on how Confucian language shaped political and ethical practices across class and gender.

PROGRAM ADVISOR

James Flowers is a Brain Pool Program Research Fellow at the Climate-Body Institute in Kyung Hee University. He is a historian of medicine, focusing on traditional medicine in Korea.

BOARD MEMBER, PROGRAM ADVISOR

Sara McAdory-Kim is an editor. Alongside a career thread editing work in Asian (especially Korean) studies for individual clients, she manages two public health journals.